Here is a lavish survey of 22 of Marrakesh`s most spectacular private homes. Marrakesh the Red City is famously beautiful, attracting thousands of visitors each year, drawn to its medina, mosques & vast, colourful souk. This book takes the reader behind the high walls of the city`s ancient, narrow streets to see the splendid riads they conceal. A host of glorious photographs make this a book to relish, & the detailed commentary of Marrakeshs houses & interiors make it an invaluable resource for anyone involved in interiors or design, as well as anyone who loves Marrakesh & Morocco. ...

Marrakesh, Fez & Rabat in the Cadogan guide series; covering a range of destinations – primarily in Europe
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The Haynes Manual is one of publishing`s most famous & enduring icons. More than 200 million copies have been sold, covering everything from Austin Allegros to Zombie Survival. Now Haynes is sending itself up in a fabulously amusing & brilliantly-observed new format. Haynes Explains are compact guides to four major stages of life: babies, teenagers, marriage & pensioners. Based on the classic `stripdown & rebuild` outline, & using original Haynes lines drawings, these books are perfect gifts or stocking fillers. ` You`ll often find a couple who`ve never considered divorce, but you`ll rarely find one who`ve never considered murder.` The aim of Haynes Explains Marriage is to help you get the best value from your partnership. It can help you (a) decide what work must be done (b) tackle this work yourself, though you may choose to have much of it performed by external contractors such as the local pizza delivery company, the garage that sells just-on-the-right-side-of-crappy flowers, or (failing those) your local Relate counsellor. Sections include:* That New Car Smell (the honeymoon period). ` Honeymoon (n): the last holiday a man has before he starts working for a new boss.`* Depreciation (how endearing habits become annoying).* Pillow Torque (sex & romance). ` My wife is a sex object. Every time I ask her for sex, she objects.`* Crash Test Ratings (arguments & how to handle them).* Backseat Drivers (when the in-laws come to stay). ` It`s important to retain a soft spot for your mother-in-law. About halfway down the garden between the shed & the compost heap is ideal.`* Aerodynamics & Drag (keeping the marriage fresh). ...

Lucky is an unemployed millennial programmer. Her husb&, Krishna, is an editor for a greeting card company. Both are secretly gay, presenting their conservative Sri Lankan-American families with a heterosexual front while dating on the side. When Lucky`s grandmother falls, Lucky returns to her mother`s home & unexpectedly reconnects with her childhood friend & first lover, Nisha. When the two rekindle old romantic feelings, Lucky tries to save Nisha from entering a marriage based on a lie & finds herself pushed to breaking point. A moving exploration of love & queerness. ...

Why do we set so much store by marriage? Jane Austen was fascinated by this question, subjecting it to her forensic eye & wonderfully ironic wit again & again. Here are stolen glances & nervous advances, meddling parents & self-important cousins, society whisperings & the fluttering hearts of young lovers. All of them have their own views & expectations of marriage, & Austen’s are the wisest of all. Selected from the novels Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Northanger Abbey & Persuasion by Jane Austen.VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human. ...

“ Married to a Bedouin” is Marguerite van Geldermalsen`s story of how a New Zeal&- born nurse became the wife of Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedouin souvenir-seller of the Manaja (h) tribe, & lived with him
- & their children
- & a community of about one hundred families
- in the ancient caves of Petra in Jordan. It was 1978 & she & a friend were travelling through the Middle East when Marguerite met the charismatic Mohammad & decided that he was the man for her. Their home was a lofty two thousand year old cave carved into the red rock of a hillside. She became the resident nurse & learned to live like the Bedouin: cooking over fires, hauling water on donkeys & drinking sweet black tea. Over the years van Geldermalsen became as much of a curiosity as the cave-dwellers with tourists such as Mary Lovell & Frank Mc Court encouraging her to tell this, her extraordinary story.


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Tucked away in the eastern end of the Himalayas lies Bhutan
- a tiny, landlocked country bordering China & India. Impossibly remote
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Anita Jain, a New York-based Indian-American journalist, is single. For years she has trusted the Western way of finding a husb&, but maybe there`s something in arranged marriages after all. So she`s traveling to India in search of a perfect husb&, the old-fashioned way. Will she find a suitable man? If so, will he please her interfering family? Is the new urban Indian culture all that different from New York? & is any of this worth the effort? Marrying Anita is a refreshingly honest look at the modern search for a mate set against the backdrop of a rapidly modernizing New India. ...

Mars Illuminated Globe 30cm National Geographic Edge Executive shows political & physical features.- National Geographic cartography.- Walnut coloured.- Natural wooden base.- Brass coated metal arc. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk. Thank you. ...

Following up on Hubble, National Geographic Space Atlas, & Buzz Aldrin`s Mission to Mars, National Geographic presents the only book that reveals all the behind-the-scenes stories of the famous Curiosity project. Renowned science journalist Marc Kaufman has spent two years embedded with the engineers & scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, cheering on the rover`s spine-tingling landing, learning the back-story of anticipated findings, & witnessing the inescapable frustrations that come from operating a $2.5-billion multi-tasking robot on a planet 35 million miles from Earth. Chapter by chapter, Kaufman explores the science & technology at the heart of our mission to Mars. Why do dry creek beds suggest life may have existed here? How does Curiosity test Mars`s soil? When will humans step onto this planet, & what will it be like to live on Mars? To answer these questions, Kaufman introduces one colourful character after another, each a key player in the history-making drama unfolding on the next planet out from the sun. The enthusiasm of these scientists & inventors, not to mention the fascinating knowledge they share, bursts through on every page, confirming foreword writer Elon Musk`s declaration that We will be stepping out onto Mars by the 2030s. With images never published before, computer-enhanced with colours that make you want to spend your next vacation on Mars, this is the one & only book that explains everything behind the most ambitious space expedition ever. ...